Fred Harvey Company collection of Carl Moon Southwest photographs

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Fred Harvey Company collection of Carl Moon Southwest photographs

1907-1914

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.090

This collection contains photographs that were commissioned by Fred Harvey Co. and shot by Carl Moon circa 1907-1914. The photographs depict American Indian communities in the southwest including A:shiwi (Zuni), Acoma Pueblo, Diné (Navajo), Hopi, Laguna Pueblo, and Taos Pueblo among many others.

434 Photographs

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658129

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Moon, Carl, 1878-1948

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Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl E. Moon learned his craft as an apprentice to a photography studio. He moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, opened his own studio, and made pictorial studies of Indians in the region. Between 1907 to 1914, he worked for Fred Harvey in a studio at El Tovar, Grand Canyon, Arizona. He established a studio in Pasadena, California, where he continued to photograph and paint. During the last three decades of this career, Moon produced works for Henry E. Huntington, publishe...

Fred Harvey Firm

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Fred Harvey (1835-1901) began a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1878. In 1889, the Railway gave Harvey exclusive rights to manage and operate his eating houses, lunch stands, and hotel facilities upon the Santa Fe's railroads west of the Missouri River. The Harvey Houses took pride in their first class food, service, and cleanliness. From the description of Fred Harvey hotels collection, 1896-1945. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29699443 ...